Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Learning for Justice have created an open-source K-12 framework for teaching about American chattel slavery.
Description of K-12 Framework for Teaching American Slavery
"Welcome to Learning for Justice’s K-12 framework for teaching about American slavery. This framework, with the following components, can be used to help supplement current curriculum or to help guide the creation of new curriculum that more honestly and courageously tells the story of American slavery—one that includes the enslavement of both African and Indigenous peoples.
Our goal is to inspire a widespread commitment to robust, effective and accurate teaching about American slavery in K-12 classrooms. This history is fundamental to understanding our nation’s past and its present. If the topic is taught with inadequate breadth or depth, students are unable to draw connections between historical events and concurrent struggles for racial equality or to contextualize how the world they inhabit today was shaped by the institution of slavery and its ideological progeny, white supremacy."